buck private

1. 1.

   an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines

   “our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value”

   Synonymsprivatecommon soldier

   Broaderenlisted man

Questions about buck private

What does buck private mean?

buck private means "an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines".

What is another word for buck private?

Close synonyms include private, common soldier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buck private a common word?

buck private is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.